Both accounts offer 15 months at no interest, with a 3 percent upfront fee.
Holiday clubs offer the choice of different locations of hotels for customers and pay an upfront fee, as well as an annual maintenance fee.
For example, in the past, if Sprint Nextel sold and activated a certain number of handsets, InPhonic would get an upfront fee for each activation.
The IRS has a monthly payment plan, but it comes with an upfront fee, stiff penalties and interest, making it more costly than a commercial loan.
With profits being squeezed, experts say, some funds might have no choice but to collect the capital from shareholders, in the form of an upfront fee.
Under the new structure, InPhonic gets a smaller upfront fee for each handset activated, but it also gets residual payments for as long as the customer stays with the carrier.
If an upfront fee were levied (in this case by a financial ombudsman), and returned only to those with real grievances, time-wasters would be deterred and the number of false claims would fall.
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For example, in the past, if Sprint Nextel (nyse: S - news - people ) sold and activated a certain number of handsets, InPhonic would get an upfront fee for each activation.
In exchange for an upfront fee, a bond insurer would take a bond with a midling investment grade rating -- single-A, for example -- and offer to pay investors what they were due if the issuer defaulted.
Starting in the late 1980s, the chains marched on new markets by offering a broader selection of videos and, later, by drafting revenue-sharing agreements with the movie studios, which allowed the chains to carry many copies of new releases for a small upfront fee.
License agreements typically have a 10-year term, and require the licensee to pay the owner of the technology some combination of an upfront fee, royalty payments based on sales, and per diem and travel expenses of the engineers who help transfer the know-how and technology.
The company charges an upfront license fee for its software.
Ms. Ott, an enrollment-benefits manager for an insurance company, entered her credit-card number online, and was charged the fee upfront.
The firm will collect at least part of its fee upfront, and will publish a rating even if an issuer is unhappy with it.
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To join our fund, we charged clients a 1 percent fee upfront, and a percentage of profits, but you can apply the same strategy to build and strengthen your own portfolio and avoid paying management fees.
The fee that a client pays upfront covers just the first year.
Colleges currently charge a flat-rate fee about half that figure which is paid upfront.
Both allow homeowners to avoid the typical five-figure upfront cost of a solar system by paying a monthly fee that often is lower than their electricity costs.
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President of the National Union of Students Liam Burns said Mr Milburn was right to say the government should immediately cease funding "fictional, partial fee waivers", but added that reducing upfront financial support would also have questionable merit.
But most people look for a handset subsidy: a lower upfront cost for getting the phone in return for paying some set fee per month over the life of the contract.
The new SDN strategy will entail a more flexible pricing wherein instead of selling expensive gear with built-in software at an upfront price, Juniper will sell the gear first and then the software for a recurring licensing fee in a separate transaction.
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The new SDN strategy, as outlined in January, entails a more flexible pricing wherein instead of selling expensive gear with built-in software at an upfront price, Juniper will sell the gear first and then the software for a recurring licensing fee in a separate transaction.
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